SPEEDING UP SERVICE

Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 11

SPEEDING UP SERVICE

LONDON, January 21

"-In two years' time an air service to Australia occupying a week "will bo as absurd as a service that takes a fortnight now," said Captain T. Campbell Black at»the Koyal Empire Society's luncheon. . ■ ' Ho said that Britain was ten years behind in aviation, and that the Centenary air race should bo made tho starting point of efforts to institute services capable of maintaining a regular schedule of four days to Australia^ The Director of Civil Aviation, Lieu-tenant-Colonel- IV C.. Shelmerdinc, toplied that they could not speed up services in ton minutes. Plans were being carried out to improve tho ground for radio and meteorological services to enable flying for twonty-four hours a' day. The "Yorkshire Post" says that by a careful arrangement of time-tables it should shortly be possible to fly fourteen hours a day to Australia at an average speed of 150 miles an hour, reaching Sydney in six days in comfort and safety. As speeds increased this could be cut down.1 ' < '"The Dominions will not be satisfied with the present schcdulos, and it will be surprising if daily departures to Australia and Africa are not installed within, five or ten years," says the newsTho article envisages an "All-red round-the-world air service," by way of Canada, West Indies, New Zealand, and Australia, returning along the existing route.